top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-11-04

Eclipse launches new language to cut down Java boilerplate - Extend

http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/xtend/

15 years ago

391 upvotes – 221 comments

Apple's Supply Chain Secret

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/apples-supplychain-secret-hoard-lasers-11032011.html

15 years ago

344 upvotes – 147 comments

How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?

http://www.alearningaday.com/2011/11/how-can-anyone-still-hate-bill-gates.html

15 years ago

315 upvotes – 255 comments

The Number One Trait of a Great Developer

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/the-number-one-trait-of-a-great-developer/

15 years ago

262 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Scroll Reddit

http://www.Scrolldit.com

15 years ago

240 upvotes – 73 comments

DressRush Pitch Deck

http://investors.dressrush.com/

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 91 comments

Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/04/why-daylight-saving-time-should-be-eliminated/

15 years ago

220 upvotes – 126 comments

Google threatens to cut ties with Chamber of Commerce over Protect-IP lobbying

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67603_Page2.html

15 years ago

214 upvotes – 38 comments

Linus Torvalds: Software and Process Patents Don't Make Sense

http://www.muktware.com/news/2866

15 years ago

195 upvotes – 86 comments

“But The Client Wants IE 6 Support”

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/03/%e2%80%9cbut-the-client-wants-ie-6-support%e2%80%9d/

15 years ago

187 upvotes – 108 comments

The Hustler's Manifesto

http://blog.niroka.com/post/12253356252/the-hustlers-manifesto

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 74 comments

Twitter Bootstrap v1.4.0 Released

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/wiki/Changelog

15 years ago

★ 174.2k MDX MIT
168 upvotes – 27 comments

A PostgreSQL Extension that allows you to access any other datasource

http://multicorn.org/

15 years ago

140 upvotes – 15 comments

WikiLeaks: Out of time and money

http://www.economist.com/node/21536578

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 76 comments

How Not to Design a Home Page

http://academicvc.com/2011/11/04/how-not-to-design-a-home-page/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 24 comments

Infrastructure Debt

http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2011/11/03/infrastructure-debt/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 28 comments

Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-hubble-disc-black-hole.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 17 comments

Computer Scientist Creates Kill-Switch for Biological Viruses

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/todd-rider-has-a-kill-switch-for-viruses-11032011.html

15 years ago

116 upvotes – 23 comments

Winamp for Mac

http://www.winamp.com/mac

15 years ago

114 upvotes – 108 comments

Have 4 minutes to help startup visa?

https://sites.google.com/site/iamelgringo/have-4-mintues-to-help-startup-visa

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

Creativity doesn't need a muse. It needs a drill sergeant.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201111/stan-richards-unique-management-style.html

15 years ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html

15 years ago

98 upvotes – 152 comments

WhiteyPaint Turns Walls Into Whiteboards Without Cramping Your Wallpaper’s Style

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/whiteypaint-turns-walls-into-whiteboards-without-cramping-your-wallpapers-style/

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 52 comments

Insights on the Y Combinator interview

http://rtabl.es/ycombinator

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 14 comments

Patently Absurd - Copyright Law Can Meet the Needs of Software Developers

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13735

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments

Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates

http://blog.wilshipley.com/2011/11/real-security-in-mac-os-x-requires.html

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 26 comments

Programming Languages Suck at UX

http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2011/10/programming-languages-have-bad-user.html

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 74 comments

The Increasingly Prevalent Auto-Follow Trick

http://nickoneill.com/the-increasingly-prevalent-auto-follow-trick-2011-11/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 29 comments

Global Day of Coderetreat December 3rd

http://coderetreat.com/global_day.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 23 comments

Six Ways to Overcome the Urge to Procrastinate

http://www.caycon.com/blog/2011/11/six-ways-to-overcome-the-urge-to-procrastinate/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 27 comments

Ask PG: Why don't my votes count?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196081

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 16 comments

Profanity Doesn't Work

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProfanityDoesntWork.aspx

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 89 comments

The Yet Another Framework (Yaf), PHP extension for developing web applications

http://php.net/yaf

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

How Google did their barrel roll trick

http://www.acumenholdings.com/blog/how-did-google-do-a-barrel-roll/

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 16 comments

Equations True Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/equations-for-geeks/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 14 comments

Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, $9750, Ships in 2 weeks

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/03/reds-scarlet-gets-official-4k-for-under-10k/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 52 comments

Groupon shares open up 40%

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/groupon-ipo-shares-pop-40-on-first-trade-debuts-at-17-8b-market-cap/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 58 comments

Anonymous calls off outing of cartel after release of kidnapped member

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/anonymous-calls-off-outing-of-narco-cartel-after-release-of-kidnapped-member.ars

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 15 comments

You don't even know what you like

http://fennb.com/you-dont-even-know-what-you-like

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 8 comments

WikiLeaks is Dead. Now What?

http://openwatch.net/blog/18

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 37 comments

Tracelytics: Google Dapper for the Rest of Us

http://www.tracelytics.com/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

MyBalsamiq: remote, collaborative UX Design

https://www.mybalsamiq.com

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 24 comments

Essential Apps of 2011

http://www.wired.com/reviews/category/apps/essentials-apps

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments

Fossil Teeth Put Humans in Europe Earlier Than Thought

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/science/fossil-teeth-put-humans-in-europe-earlier-than-thought.html?src=recg

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Ask PG: Are there IP blocks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196298

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 27 comments

Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html

15 years ago

46 upvotes – 6 comments
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